Rapid D3.js [Video]

Rapid D3.js [Video] is published by Packt Publishing in February 2015. This book has 1 Hour 49 minutes pages in English, ISBN-13 978-1783554416.

Most of the available data we have access to is in the form of numbers, tables, and Excel spreadsheets. Wouldn’t it be great if all this data magically sprung up colorful charts, graphs, and clouds? The D3 JavaScript library is that magic wand to get all the work done with a wave of your hand or a few lines of code. Everything you require to make your data display in aesthetic awe can be achieved using D3.js.

Rapid D3.js begins with setting up your development environment, and then dives into how data binding works and how it’s similar to jQuery. We’ll take a look at building a football fan site and using spreadsheet data (TSV) to build a team roster, and learn about scaling, drawing axes, data manipulation, and even how to animate bars in five amazingly simple lines of code.

Driving HTML tables is nice, but what we really want to see is graphics. So next, we’ll build a histogram from a CSV file of goals scored over the season. But D3 isn’t just for building tables or creating graphs. You can also build a website framework driven from a CSV file. We’ll also be creating a simple Bootstrap menu, and the possibilities demonstrated by this quick mini project are limitless.

Finally, we’ll take a couple of sample D3 visualizations such as Word Cloud and Sunburst and incorporate our data into them. Last but not least, we’ll see how to build a website menu framework and techniques on how to utilize third-party visualizations within it.

This video course will take you from the foundational bindings of Data-driven Documents to understanding strategies to create and extend amazing visualizations.

Combine Bootstrap with D3, and use it to drive a web page architecture

Discover how to add interaction to visualizations, from simple HTML selectors to arcs in a sunburst

Who This Video Is For

If you are a web developer who is interested in starting out with D3.js, this course is for you. Knowledge of HTML, the DOM, and JavaScript is necessary. Some understanding of SVG is useful, but not required.